Language identifies the target audience

The language used in texts and songs allows people to understand who the intended audience is. The language in the text Gargantua seems to be directed at a somewhat knowledgeable audience. Rebalais uses a lot of allusions to mythology and in order to fully understand what they mean and how they relate to Gargantua being born the audience must know about how the mythological characters were born. The language in A. R. Ammons's Shit List seems to be directed at everyone. It is simply a list of animals and how they all defecate. The parentheticals placed at certain points sometimes add explanation to what the fecal matter looks like. For example, the parentheticals in “caterpillar shit (so many dark/kinds, neatly pelleted as mint seed)” show that there are many kinds of caterpillars and they each have different feces. However, the language seems to target the general audience, at least those who are not opposed to the profane word, because everybody knows that living creatures defecate. In a way, the poem is funny, not because it talks about feces, but rather because it uses that specific word. “Shit” (the word) is funny. The language in the Trickster seems also to be directed at everyone. The story talks about the trickster being so arrogant that he decides to eat a bulb that warns him that eating it will make him defecate. He breaks wind in a very exaggerated manner, then he defecates (also in an exaggerated manner) and eventually falls into his own feces. This story teaches everyone not to be arrogant because it can have some negative consequences. The song Sex With Ducks seems to be aimed at both supporters of gay marriage and those against it. The song takes something that an anti-gay marriage individual uses to exaggerate the consequences of same sex marriage and turns it into something supporting same sex marriage. The song makes having sex with ducks seem like something desirable. It is like when pornography used to be illegal but now it can be found just about everywhere. There is still opposition, but it is legal and abundant. Similarly, gay marriages and having sex with ducks will be something objectionable, but legal and abundant.